live from moscow to levon pm the gyptian was voted the final stage of the referendum on the islamist draft a constitution that sparked violent protests and fierce clashes but many doubt the ballot results will quell the months long term. moscow's one step closer to banning all adoptions of russian children by americans triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases and even some deaths the bills calls the storm of reaction here in russia. and all you don't want for christmas is festive shopping fever gathers pace we look at what gifts risk ending up going straight into the bed the very next day.

over a given for me kevin owen if you just joined us this is the new center on our top story it's a decisive day for egypt as people vote on the draft constitution to split the nation and triggered monthlong protests the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh break of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria cairo based journeys bell true explains what's expected from the vote and whether the outcome is likely to end the turmoil. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates have headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was about to provide as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution very so against the constitution this happened

on islam is staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they said cars and buses something these buses belong to the museum brotherhood police intervened with take out leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the after several instances of violence is in alexandria and entire a few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms what people are saying here on the streets the country is divided those who are against the constitution say we're only in-force a presidential dictatorship but it lacks a key social economic rights it was drafted by islamist dominated assembly so it's for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the concert has drawn so they say we'll have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes of people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes vote this is largely

because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule of cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong as the face of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the process of entry in the presidential elections even many to believe that this will in fact be yes but the opposition forces for that part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging. document several cases of electoral violations including supervised polling stations leading both rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually not in boy the issue digital supervision remains a point of contention here thousands of judges continue to boycott the referendum really will have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refuse to back down. meanwhile used tonight egypt's vice president's resigned amid the voting reportedly so i think

disagreements over president morsi is policies despite the fact the new constitution eliminated the post of vice president altogether now for his departure is seen as premature independent political analyst and glazebrook told r.t. earlier the entire situation in the country is a result of hasty actions and rushed decisions breo main problem with this referendum that is being rushed through before egyptians are really had a chance to take on board the momentous are people of the last year what it signifies and also before they've had a chance to really understand what the policies of the muslim brotherhood actually are so this is all being rushed through has been rushed through deliberately before people had a chance to take stock and before the opposition had a chance to organize themselves as well not to get this was it is a pretty unprecedented the biggest mass movement in egypt in fifty years what we saw burst in the streets last year in egypt and so the opposition have not really had a chance to the holy organize themselves to to present

a clear program to the electorate and so on the muslim brotherhood of course on the other hand are organized and have been allowed actually to organize in certain spheres of egyptian right for several decades. and we promise you more expert analysis of the situation in egypt as well as the timeline of recent protests and of course the most dramatic videos too on our web site r.t. dot com. five hundred dollars that's the cost the u.s. marine sergeant will pay for your and eating on the bodies of dead taliban insurgents he was demoted and will see his pay docked after admitting to desecration political activist david swanson told me earlier the sentence that was too lenient and highlights how the u.s. military has lost touch with reality in afghanistan. it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of killing human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we

that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is ok to occupy the nations of other people we had an incident this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking a mosque or to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this rule in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the more the ill will builds both at home and of course in the nations the not hide and

being subjected to drone strikes well the case is once again i would have concerns over america's continuing presence in afghanistan but president obama says he's hoping to turn a page on a decade of war now after naming senator john kerry as the next secretary of state the fence on this ivan island believes kerry's appointment could lead to a less aggressive u.s. foreign policy. we're in fiscal crisis here and i think we're going to have to retract the clause of the empire as we speak and i think no nothing was ever done about that maybe john kerry will change he probably won't change dramatically because i think the united states is into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can do it financially and i don't even think it's desirable but i think you know we went into libya we went into we put more troops in afghanistan those were bad moves in my opinion so i think. you may have a more dovish line coming from kerry than you did from hillary clinton you're

watching our to internationalise very good company to now still at the problems continue to mount for greece now for the country's main banks are looking for ways to stay afloat after posting massive losses we examine our closest so and. look in my political career i was minister of regional corporation minister it was a group culture minister of housing and construction in the. ministry of justice even held his posts in tenuously israel prepares for elections with increasing concerns over the country's political process. as a close kind of christmas many people who are making a last minute dash to the shops me glued it but think twice is the warning before purchasing that novelty present as the recipient might not be that grateful.

polyploid her explains from the hustle and bustle. nice of us know the problem for someone celebrating off the best twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already to the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to the presents the day off the christmas tree ever been given you a christmas present every christmas and easter them away on boxing day. for me give it away because i just to myself feel better and then there are the kids to give me an example of a useless christmas present you may have to say. i was given a call from work. you probably can't put it on so you can hear the other. aguy over light woman in a bikini when you pull the hot water and she becomes like it the bikini peels off what was that an it's a coat hanger a miss it's kind of hanging that isn't given like chunks of christmas stuff that

you just throw away on boxing day yes what was going to which is. pretty heavily yeah we just bought some junk to christmas i think i might have just bought some junk for christmas. play on boxing day it's not actually a story christmas presents away along with we just came from the strike and so we had a christians before we came and so i overstuff all the scripts that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no this present sometimes yes you try them last christmas absolutely not much to do with them. usually i just give them to my sister i have actually i've received coloring crayons a few years ago so they didn't last long i just don't like other anymore and i don't think i did anyway they're still worried about the state of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that the last of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever the design to squeeze

a loss out to the recipient and then the binge on boxing day. say this year feel free to forget to buy a present or two you'll be saving the environment while you're at it. i got it from the boys over christmas presents the january sales not quite the spirit of it is it at all but with more international news here on r t just a couple of minutes so stay with us. wealthy british style. that's not on my list for. markets why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report

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this is our tape welcome of ala riveting us citizens from adopting russian children has been passed by the lower house of parliament in moscow almost unanimous the vote comes after a series of child abuse cases abroad got to fish account books of the stories which lead to the latest measures. the adoption agreement the russian the u.s.

signed in the vampire was designed to provide mechanisms of oversight for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children still cool here are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their gifts that are just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in the home of the tete a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told reporters and such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency

that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges of. the adoptive father of two year olds who may get a couple was acquitted after she forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born to faneuil craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica big lee received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged about how she disciplined her adopted russian child by

systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washroom one not seen the bio of who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according florida quote it that at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year with the latest developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there is a flight as chance were an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is undoubted just as indisputable seems the or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to check on. online for you your chance to a luxury items belonging to

a former president that's the ousted leader should such as expensive cars and millions of dollars worth of jewelry going on about how we got a report about. both reporting to a local russian deputies initiated now an investigation into lady gaga. fearing she promoted quote homosexual propaganda and quote but what exactly sparked the official discontent you can find out online. three. people all four of greece's largest banks securing up for a bail out post after reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around

twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat greece has been relying on international bailout funds now since twenty ten and as economists demitra c.n.n. not place says it so ordinary greeks are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses the loans on which. this recapitalization of the bank sector is going to decrease are coming from the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be aid they're going to be part of the and it national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayer and we had forty thousand small businesses closing in closing this year alone three hundred additional thousand of job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand austerity you on the other hand bank inability to

provide liquidity for the markets so gruesome over appearing for another year of painful cuts and tax hikes but for a wider outlook on where the global economy stands at the end attorney twelve we voted to do the kaiser report ten minutes from now it is a taster. then five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button lead analyst still don't know whether we deflation inflation hyper inflation. trying to unravel it it's world news before that a suicide blast during a political rally in northwest pakistan has left nine dead and wounded twenty five a provincial cabinet minister as well as his secretary and police chief are among those killed in the incident a pakistani military group linked to the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack at least protestors of india's capital leaving several people injured the

demonstrators of calling for the death penalty to be handed that the six men who are accused of gang rape in the brutal beating of a twenty three year old student government seeking life in prison for the assailants. for israel the new year will be marked by an election for the new parliament happening earlier than planned now for many frequent voting is the embodiment of democracy but the rapid turnaround of ministers and governments is leading now to calls for an overhaul of the entire political system is an artist paula slater. call us money as you know him but in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant and his option and minister of justice i have even held this post simul tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented it just shows that the system is so messed up be toyed. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago

it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times you starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not for nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent where the be able. to clear well as eventually as it was. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted blah blah blah blah blah three motions are prime minister says he must

call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if that's normal we really say there's no problem with our system should be nasty critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to share more of the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra-orthodox ultra rightists right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's more in the region crissy the minority rule with a majority what a lot of. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan i also. mentioned honestly today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and a long term planning he's no longer there. what many of these people want

is a complete overhaul of the system with parliamentary elections slated for the mixture israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but a ton of us is running thin with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with its government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv we are on the cards report marks and stacy here after the break. this. one rises over what seems like and list forest but here in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic great excuse. for

crime longer is both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy logger set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes . this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is a lie out according to law and not a single berry can be picked up along like this used their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon

as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare them off alexander some morning has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that twelve tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer . this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the

government now for more. than your forest and according to. the guys in the forest through the still forest. there's no one tries to stop them in just five years the forest will be gone. what will the people who live after us do. it's a question more and more people are aware of to. climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps those small steps might be a start to people living in harmony with nature.

max keiser welcome to the kaiser report it's been five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own debt vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button lint and analyst still don't know whether we have deflation inflation hyper inflation since you haven't maxed three we have crazy felicia and we're going to try to determine this will get a little bit closer to whether we have inflation deflation hyperinflation in the slightest my dad the fear of money fairy queens. but it is a funny little difference there the central banking revolution will end in disaster this is what money week says and there are of course talking to the complete abandonment of any inflation target member for a few years there we've been pretending that central banks are independent that

they are monitoring inflation trying to maintain the value of our currencies but ben bernanke has said he's going to keep rates at zero until unemployment is at six point five percent told has done the art on that he's done the chart on that and he reckons it's twenty eight. until we get to six point five percent unemployment mark carney who's coming into here at the bank of england he says that he's going to start targeting nominal g.d.p. right barry ritholtz as an artiste. the charts but yes of course the problem with the global system is that they have the wrong model it's not that the banks stole billions it's not that they might laundered billions and committed massive fraud no no the model was wrong we were targeting the wrong thing so we're going to change the model and we're going to double down on fraud. yeah i like that.